Depiction

Co-creation of innovation futures and coordination of award-winning projects. 20+ years of experience with measurable impacts from grassroots communities to high-level policy-making..

Now [11.2021 – ]_

// Policy Adviser at Coordination and Analytics Team of EIC / European Innovation Council, EISMEA / European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency, established by the European Commission.
// Coordination of Strategic Intelligence, Technology Foresight, Feedback to Policy, and Experimental Public Innovation, with projects such as Data-driven Experimentation for EIC Strategic Intelligence or the Annual EIC Tech Report

Before [02.2016 – 10.2021]_

// Project Manager / Researcher / Policy Analyst at EU Policy Lab / #PolicyLab4EU and Competence Centre on Foresight / #Foresight4EU, Foresight, Modelling, Behavioural Insights and Design for Policy Unit of JRC / Joint Research Centre, European Commission‘s in-house knowledge service.
// Coordination of Collaborative, Anticipatory, Experimental and Transdisciplinary processes for Evidence-based Policy Advice, with projects such as #MakingSenseEU / Advances and Experiments in Participatory Sensing [Ars Electronica STARTS Prize Honorary Mention] or #Blockchain4EU / Blockchain for Industrial Transformations [JRC Excellence Award in Best Science for Policy – Ad-hoc Support].

Before before [08.2002 – 01.2016]_

// Researcher at CETCOPRA / Centre d’Etude des Techniques des Connaissances et des Pratiques of University of Paris 1 / Panthéon-Sorbonne, with projects such as Remnant Daily Objects;
// Associate Researcher at VFabLab of ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon, with coordination of projects such as Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures: From Collaborative Design to Digital Fabrication and programs such as Choose Science: From School to University;
// Associate Researcher at CIES-IUL / Center for Research and Studies in Sociology of ISCTE-IUL, with projects such as Sociology on Technology and as MC of COST Action IS1007 Investigating Cultural Sustainability;
// Visiting Researcher at the Department of STS / Science and Technology Studies of RPI / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
// Assistant Researcher at ICS-ULisboa / Institute of Social Sciences of University of Lisbon, in Participant Observation processes and Urban Ethnography projects;
// Associate Researcher / Consultant at multiple Local and Regional CSOs / NGOs, in Participatory and Community-based projects.

Education_

// Sociology [BA Hons Department of Sociology, ISCTE-IUL + PhD Candidate School of Sociology and Public Policy, ISCTE-IUL];
// Philosophy / Anthropology [DEA Master UFR Philosophy, University of Paris 1 + PhD Candidate Philosophy Doctoral School, University of Paris 1];
// Multiple certifications, such as Facilitation in LEGO Serious Play Method, Oxford Scenarios Programme, or Superforecasting.

Fields_

// Strategic Intelligence and Anticipation
// Future-oriented Technology Assessment
// Public and Social Innovation
// Value-driven and Bottom-up R&I
// Distributed Networks and Advanced Manufacturing
// Environmental and Social Sustainability
// Urban Action Research
// Phenomenology and Epistemology

Skills_

// Project Management
// Knowledge Architecture
// Qualitative and Mixed Methods
// Horizon Scanning and Scenarios
// Co-creation and Participatory Design
// Citizen and Stakeholder Engagement
// Strategic Communication
// Workshop Facilitation